DevOps KC: Fall into ReBAC and Permissions-as-a-Service

With the leaves (hopefully) beginning to change and the weather cooling, join us for our September Meetup! We'll be joined by Ben Dechrai who will be talking to us about "Fine Grained Authorisation with Relationship-Based Access Control". Here's the abstract for the talk:

Who can tag me in a post? If I move this file to another folder, who now has access? If my owner breaks up with his friend, will I still get a bone?

Whether you're a human, or a dog, let's face it, authorisation is hard. Role-based access control is a great starting point but hard to scale. Attribute-based access control scales better, but neither are much good at answering more complex conditions, like whether friends-of-friends can read your posts, or knowing if your dental hygiene is going to suffer. For such situations, we generally have to wrap this up into business logic.

This is where relationship-based access control (ReBAC) comes in, offering a nuanced approach to accessing resources without codifying that into the applications.

In this session, we'll look at how to define these relationships, experience live demos, and discover how we can deploy our own fine-grained authorisation service. Expect some tail-wagging insights and a few laughs as we explore access control from a canine's point of view.

Agenda:

• 530p - Arrive, grab some food and drink
• 600p - Welcome, opening remarks
• 610p - Talk
• 700p - Open discussion, Networking
• 730p - End

Speaker:

• Ben Dechrai

Ben is a technologist with a strong focus on security and privacy, recognized as an MVP for his exceptional contributions to the community. From writing code at 11 years old to preventing his parents from breaking the family PC, Ben empowers developers to build safer applications through better security and coding practices. With over two decades of experience in software engineering, security, and architecture, Ben is a published author, and has consulted for companies and investors across numerous industries. He is deeply involved in the tech community, running technology conferences and workshops to share his expertise. Offstage, Ben enjoys traveling the world with his wife and engages with fellow tech enthusiasts through his project, hallway.social.

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Sponsors:

• VML (venue)
• AWS (food & drink)